Sentences with phrase «over a period of decades»

And this didn't occur overnight, this occurred over a period of decades.

What's new is a study of 5 million workers over a period of decades.

Since these changes took place over periods of decades or even years, industries, companies and individuals had time to adjust.

Global warming is expected to raise temperatures and sea levels over a period of decades — perhaps centuries.

At that point, according to the paper, ice loss could pick up steam, with big losses over a period of decades.

Very few people know much about how electricity rates work, where their rates have been, or where they likely to go over a period of decades.

The parade of liberal late - night TV hosts — including Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, and James Corden — flat - out ignored Thursday the blistering New York Times report alleging that Hollywood super-producer and Democratic Party mega-donor sexually harassed multiple women over a period of decades.

However for example China has just relocated about half a billion people over a period of decades into urban high rise apartments, all relying on centralised technology systems.

How do we extract value and justice from a financial system which has been rigged over a period of decades in favour of the bad guys?

Climate change requires cooperation between countries over a period of decades but we don't have much time to waste.»

The way Druck generated 30 % average annual returns over a period of decades was by being a pig, by putting all his eggs in one basket and watching it very carefully.

The way priests are constantly shuffled around, the tacit approval of the churches leadership coupled with the fact that thousands of cases have been reported across at least 2 continent's over a period of decades paints a pretty filthy picture.

Evolutionary biology is a small enough scientific specialty to permit the tracking of the entire research output over a period of decades.

The unreliability of the numbers has been flagged over a period of decades by the EPA's own internal watchdog and other government auditors.

Imagine a nearby star that over a period of decades moves measurably with respect to the background of more distant stars.

Apatow, who credits Shandling with a major impact on his career that included his first directing opportunity on The Larry Sanders Show, draws on home videos from Shandling's childhood and journals he kept over a period of decades.

«Several colleagues and I launched WIDE World as a research and development initiative, guiding it through multiple versions over a period of a decade.

In contrast, if you look at a list of top performers over a period of a decade or two, the top spots usually belong to people who invest much as we do — who look at all the excruciating detail and temper it with a consistent blend of diversification and common sense.

Paper route — Save regularly over a period of decades usually into investment accounts with 60 % equities and 40 % bonds.

For his first solo exhibition in the United States, London - based artist David Austen presents film, painting, watercolor, and collage made over the period of a decade.

One was executed, on and off, over a period of 10 years (1926 - 1936, pictured right), the other over a period of a decade and a half (1926 - 1942)- two paintings he really couldn't let go of.

Built over the period of a decade and a half and later destroyed by the Allied bombing during the Second World War, this massive walk - in sculptural environment — a precursor to installation art — filled a portion of the artist's Hannover, Germany home by the time he fled the Nazi regime in 1937.

We stand to lose everything if we allow ourselves to regress to the type of thinking that allowed this crisis to ferment over a period of decades.

Among the 136 artists and collectives — both Mexican and foreign — who have created some 200 works in Mexico City over the period of a decade are Francis Alÿs, Minerva Cuevas, Damian Ortega, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Gabriel Kuri, Carlos Amorales, Teresa Margolles, Lourdes Grobet, Jimmie Durham, Fernando Ortega and Thomas Galssford.

The gallery has worked with a number of artists over a period of decades, spurring a variety of spin - off projects.

Aside from an unfortunate choice of name («contraction» is really too negative a term when what we're talking about is massive growth of carbon - free alternatives) putting CO2 emissions under a global budget that achieves fairness over a period of decades seems like the only choice we really have, other than a free - for - all race to the bottom.

The extra tropical rainfall into the Atlantic reduced the salinity and were slowly propagated north over a period of decades.

But the rate of global surface warming can fluctuate due to natural variations in the climate system over periods of a decade or so.»

Internal variability can only account for small amounts of warming and cooling over periods of decades, and scientific studies have consistently shown that it can not account for the global warming over the past century.

Either way, there's no way these things are not epically disruptive if done over the period of a decade (or probably even two or three decades!).

When these fibers are inhaled, they settle in the lungs and cause a slow irritation that leads to cancer over a period of decades.

«In today's burgeoning and chaotic news ecosystem, it is difficult to parse truth from falsehood, wisdom from spin... We have seen a decline in trust in the media over a period of decades and the polarization across what types of media are trusted,» Lehrman said.

It took nine titles over the period of a decade before Ubisoft finally hit the reset button on the Assassin's Creed franchise, and we're so glad that they did.

Low maximum sea ice extent also occurred over periods of some decades (e.g., mid-seventeenth and mid-eighteenth centuries, early fifteenth and late thirteenth centuries), with absolute values in some cases as low as the twentieth century ones, but these periods were in no case as persistent as in the twentieth century. . .

The reports allege that Weinstein sexually harassed and assaulted women over a period of decades.

I hypothesized here «that upwelling in the Pacific Ocean is modulated by solar activity over periods of decades to millennia — with profound impacts on communities and ecosystems globally.

So deep was Montaigne's grief that, over a period of decades, he wrote his magnificent Essays largely as compensation for the wonderful conversations he had once enjoyed but would never have again.

Billions in HUD and DOT funds, over a period of decades, have helped make it so.

This has to do with the fact that the natural variations in combination with the warming trend always point in both directions: over a period of decades or a hundred years temperatures in a particular region may rise to a lesser or greater degree than present - day climate models generally forecast.